CodeSyntaxHighlight#
A code highlighter subclass of QSyntaxHighlighter
that can be used to highlight code in a QTextEdit.
Code lexer and available styles are from pygments python library
List of available languages are available here.
List of available styles are available here.
Example#
from qtpy.QtGui import QColor, QPalette
from qtpy.QtWidgets import QApplication, QTextEdit
from superqt.utils import CodeSyntaxHighlight
app = QApplication([])
text_area = QTextEdit()
highlight = CodeSyntaxHighlight(text_area.document(), "python", "monokai")
palette = text_area.palette()
palette.setColor(QPalette.Base, QColor(highlight.background_color))
text_area.setPalette(palette)
text_area.setText(
"""from argparse import ArgumentParser
def main():
parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("name", help="Your name")
args = parser.parse_args()
print(f"Hello {args.name}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
"""
)
text_area.show()
text_area.resize(400, 200)
app.exec_()
